[ UK /stjˈuː/ ]
[ US /ˈstu/ ]
VERB
  1. be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  2. cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
    Stew the vegetables in wine
  3. bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
NOUN
  1. agitation resulting from active worry
    he's in a sweat about exams
    don't get in a stew
  2. food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
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How To Use stew In A Sentence

  • I have quite a bit more to say on this, but I'm gonna let you guys stew for a bit before I continue.
  • But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
  • Basically, it is a fish stew mixed with squash, sweet potatoes, okra, tamarind, and different kinds of peppers.
  • A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
  • Stewards held back furious fans, and security personnel had to duck as objects seemed to be thrown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, stewing hens are in big demand.
  • Grant, a booze-hound from the word go, would show up in front of his superiors stewed to the gills. Who
  • Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
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